STAGE & SCREEN: You’ve already seen ‘Southpaw’ many times“Southpaw” (2015) is a conventional, cookie-cutter rags-to-riches to-rags-to-redemption -to-riches film. While a better made film than many of its multitude of lookalike productions, “Southpaw” is, nonetheless, what it is — predictable and pedestrian. Billy Hope (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a high-flying...

Patricia Ellen Simeonoff (Hangstefer), 68Long-time Kodiak resident Patricia Ellen Simeonoff (Hangstefer), 68, passed away on July 14, 2015, in Anchorage, Alaska. The oldest of five children, Patricia was born on June 27, 1947, to John and Rita Hangstefer in Detroit, Michigan. Shortly after her birth she moved with her parents to western...

Eagle River spoils Bears’ final outingKodiak Post 17’s American Legion baseball season came to an abrupt end with two straight defeats in the Matson Lines Invitational at Bartlett High School in Anchorage. In the tournament opener on Tuesday, the Bears were done in by errors and walks in a 13-6 loss to West Anchorage. In Wednesday’s ...

Students win international competition with quake researchA team from Kodiak High School won the top prize in an international competition with their research into earthquake activity. The four-student team entered the NASA World Wind Europa Challenge, the only high school team in the university and professional competition. John Dunlop, Anna McDonald, ...

Strong Cook Inlet quake felt in KodiakKodiakans felt the shaking of a strong earthquake that struck near the shore of Cook Inlet Tuesday evening. The magnitude 6.3 quake hit at 6:35 p.m. and was 73 miles deep, according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s website. The earthquake was across Cook Inlet from Homer and was 141 miles southwes...

Change Kodiak street names only if residents elect to do it As I recall, the Russian names on some Kodiak streets came about when this community was involved in producing an outdoor play about the early history of Russian America in which Baranov eventually married an Alaskan Native woman who apparently approved of the union. Rezanov came to Kodiak briefl...

Cyclists to rally, support building of World Peace Bridge Tunnel Kodiak residents will join dozens of cyclists from around the world Friday as they express their solidarity with citizens of countries in favor of the construction a Bering Strait tunnel linking Siberia and Alaska. David Cooper, board chairman of the Kodiak Family Church, said cyclists will rally...